Victorian Songs: Lyrics of the Affections and Nature

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Victorian Songs

  "'Let some one sing to us, lightlier move
    The minutes fledged with music'."

      TENNYSON




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  Victorian Songs

  Lyrics of the Affections
  and Nature

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  Collected and Illustrated
  by Edmund H Garrett
  with an Introduction by
  Edmund Gosse

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  Little Brown and Company
  Boston 1895




  _Copyright, 1895._
  BY EDMUND H. GARRETT.


  University Press:
  John Wilson and Son, Cambridge, U.S.A.




[Transcriber's Note:

Some printings of the book have a two-page Editor's Note before the
Contents, acknowledging the "publishers and authors who have given
permission for the use of many of the songs included in this volume".
It has been omitted from this e-text.]




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  CONTENTS

    Where are the songs I used to know?

        Christina Rossetti.


  AIDE, HAMILTON (1830).                                    Page
    Remember or Forget                                         3
    Oh, Let Me Dream                                           6
    Love, the Pilgrim                                          7

  ALLINGHAM, WILLIAM (1824-1889).
    Lovely Mary Donnelly                                       9
    Song                                                      13
    Serenade                                                  14
    Across the Sea                                            16

  ARNOLD, SIR EDWIN (1832).
    Serenade                                                  18
    A Love Song of Henri Quatre                               20

  ASHE, THOMAS (1836-1889).
    No and Yes                                                22
    At Altenahr                                               23
    Marit                                                     24

  AUSTIN, ALFRED (1835).
    A Night in June                                           26

  BEDDOES, THOMAS LOVELL (1803-1849).
    Dream-Pedlary                                             30
    Song from the Ship                                        33
    Song                                                      34
    Song                                                      35
    Song, by Two Voices                                       36
    Song                                                      38

  BENNETT, WILLIAM COX (1820).
    Cradle Song                                               39
    My Roses blossom the Whole Year Round                     41
    Cradle Song                                               42

  BOURDILLON, F. W. (1852).
    Love's Meinie                                             43
    The Night has a Thousand Eyes                             44
    A Lost Voice                                              45

  BUCHANAN, ROBERT (1841).
    Serenade                                                  46
    Song                                                      48

  COLLINS, MORTIMER (1827-1876).
    To F. C.                                                  49
    A Game of Chess                                           50
    Multum in Parvo                                           52
    Violets at Home                                           53
    My Thrush                                                 54

  CRAIK, DINAH MARIA MULOCK (1826-1887).
    Too Late                                                  56
    A Silly Song                                              58

  DARLEY, GEORGE (1795-1846).
    May Day                                                   60
    I 've been Roaming                                        62
    Sylvia's Song                                             63
    Serenade                                                  64

  DE TABLEY, LORD (1835).
    A Winter Sketch                                           66
    The Second Madrigal                                       69

  DE VERE, AUBREY (1788-1846).
    Song                                                      70
    Song                                                      72
    Song                                                      74

  DICKENS, CHARLES (1812-1870).
    The Ivy Green                                             75

  DOBSON, AUSTIN (1840).
    The Ladies of St.